Here's an overview of our academic learning this year....

Reading: Open Court reading series, Literature Circles (novels), Book
Projects, Independent Reading (DEAR), Read Alouds

   *Focus on: 
      Comprehension strategies (predicting, questioning,
       visualizing, summarizing, making connections,
       monitoring/clarifying)

       Comprehension skills (compare/contrast, cause/effect,
       sequence, author’s point-of-view, making inferences, drawing
       conclusions)

       Responding to Literature

Writing: Explore various genres through a Writer’s Workshop approach,
Develop our skills as we focus on the 6 Traits of Writing

Math: Place Value (of whole numbers/decimals), Addition/Subtraction,
Multiplication/Division, Measurement, Graphing, Fractions, Geometry, Data
and Statistics

Social Studies: Geography, Native Americans, Explorers, Colonization,
Revolutionary War

Science: Solar System, Body Systems, Heredity and Genetics, Force and
Motion